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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures, hemic and lymphatic system

Keyhole pelvic lymph node removal with tissue sampling

CPT 38573the billing code this page is about

Laparoscopic removal of lymph nodes on both sides of the pelvis, including fluid and tissue samples from the abdominal lining and removal of the fatty apron when performed.

Hospitals typically charge $6,307 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 282 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,952. Most fall between $1,651 and $14,616 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
282
States
40
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 282 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,267$1,945$6,307$13,044$21,297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,267 vs $21,297).

How the prices are spread

$1,186 – $1,657: 46 hospitals$1,186$1,657 – $2,315: 29 hospitals$2,315 – $3,234: 22 hospitals$2,315$3,234 – $4,518: 12 hospitals$4,518 – $6,311: 21 hospitals$4,518$6,311 – $8,817: 26 hospitals$8,817 – $12,317: 32 hospitals$8,817$12,317 – $17,207: 50 hospitals$17,207 – $24,039: 6 hospitals$17,207$24,039 – $33,583: 12 hospitals$24,039median $6,307price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (256 of 282 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,186$1,65746
$1,657$2,31529
$2,315$3,23422
$3,234$4,51812
$4,518$6,31121
$6,311$8,81726
$8,817$12,31732
$12,317$17,20750
$17,207$24,0396
$24,039$33,58312

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$10,860
Median cash price$6,307
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $6,307.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,107 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,107Wisconsin: median $11,953 across 24 hospitalsWI$11,953Michigan: median $1,482 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,482New York: median $12,320 across 23 hospitalsNY$12,320Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,894 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,894Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,438 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,438New Jersey: median $11,524 across 30 hospitalsNJ$11,524Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,286 across 26 hospitalsCA$7,286Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,264 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,264Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,945 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,945Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,307. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY23$12,320+95%$2,893 – $12,320
Wisconsin WI24$11,953+90%$10,347 – $14,723
New Jersey NJ30$11,524+83%$5,110 – $13,892
California CA26$7,286+16%$7,286 – $7,286
Iowa IA14$2,894−54%$2,894 – $3,319
Pennsylvania PA20$2,438−61%$728 – $17,602
Illinois IL13$2,107−67%$1,537 – $58,607
Oklahoma OK12$1,945−69%$1,945 – $1,945
Michigan MI24$1,482−77%$1,363 – $14,616
West Virginia WV10$1,264−80%$1,244 – $2,022
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $6,307.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care241$6,048$1,945 – $13,892
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$10,347$1,363 – $14,723
Ownership
For-profit18fewer than 20 hospitals
Government33$10,451$2,222 – $16,482
Non-profit230$6,715$1,537 – $14,516
System affiliation
Part of a system244$6,978$1,651 – $14,616
Independent38$3,543$1,599 – $13,753

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,742
Median cash price$6,307
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

139 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,985 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,448; most fall between $1,945 and $13,704.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 139 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,536$1,945$2,985$7,286$14,723

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,536 vs $14,723).

Of the 155 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 139 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

282 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 306 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted282
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code306

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures, hemic and lymphatic system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laps W/Bi Tot Pel Lmphadec & Omntc Lymph Bx.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Keyhole pelvic lymph node removal with tissue sampling (CPT 38573) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38573-keyhole-pelvic-lymph-node-removal-with-tissue-sampling